Possible Music Technology Major

BassDad
Thu, 31 May 2007 14:23:13 +0000

The key question is whether or not you enjoy working with your hands around electrical equipment. A lot of the work is going to revolve around the use and maintenance of stuff like microphones, preamps, mixers, amplifiers, speakers, various signal processing gear, and oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers when doing maintenance. You will need to know a bit about cables, in particular which ones to use for a given application. You will need to know a fair amount about the use and maintenance of computers. Knowing how to strip wires and solder them to a connector will come in handy. If this kind of thing turns you on, then you will probably enjoy working in a recording studio environment. If you were the one who volunteered to take notes in physics lab because you could never get the equipment set up right or just did not understand what was going on, then music tech may not be the best option.